10 things you need to know this morning in Australia

1. All seemed relatively calm on markets overnight. Oil was a little lower, the US dollar was a little stronger, the Aussie dollar is cruising. And the December SPI 200 contract is down just 15 points after yesterday’s much better than expected performance on the ASX. Don’t be fooled.

4. Australia’s most influential tech innovators – all 100 of them – have gathered at Business Insider. We’ll be rolling them all out tomorrow and highlighting their amazing achievements over the past 12 months. For now, we’ve picked out a couple of particularly impressive ones – here’s Seek founder Paul Bassat on why Australia’s size is no obstacle to global tech competitiveness, and why Expert360 CEO Bridget Loudon’s mission to disrupt consulting has taken her to the US market.

“I don’t owe them anything. It’s my choice. If you don’t like it, I didn’t ask you to come watch. Just leave.”

7. Does the F-35’s stealth capability make it the ultimate force to be reckoned with in the skies? No, says Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Igor Konashenkov. “All the illusions of amateurs about the existence of ‘invisible’ jets will face a disappointing reality,” he said recently. He was referring to the capabilities of Russia’s S-300 and S-400 air defence systems. So we asked Russian missile defence expert Dr Igor Sutyagin if that were true and he said Konashenkov is “absolutely right” – but it wasn’t that simple.

8. Want to live in space? Real space, that is, not Mars. Because this multinational group wants you to join “Asgardia” – the first outer space nation with a mission to defend Earth. Yes, they’re serious – but it all sounds a bit too “Red Dwarf” for our comfort.